Friday Morning Links
Assorted content to end your week. – Ricky Leong writes that any meaningful effort to stop the coronavirus has to include enforcement to deal with the people who haven’t responded…
2020
A New Wave of Hate: Anti-Asian Sentiment on the Rise
Share this article: The second wave of Covid-19 is here in Canada and many questions loom as to how the future of the pandemic will play out. One thing that…
O’Toole’s Big Tent Dreams.
Federal conservative leader Erin O’Toole is making his intentions clear and prime minister Justin Trudeau can ignore the intent and lose everything. O’Toole is attempting to mix the Harper base,…
No Half Measures
When it comes to COVID, Tom Walkom writes, half measures won’t work: Either we are fighting the COVID-19 pandemic, or we are not. There can be no half measures. Eileen…
Self-harm
A close friend just told me that her important surgery was canceled as she was literally on her way to the hospital: it’s now too dangerous. She’s in tears. Way…
Trump concedes?
…it’s messed-up to do it on a notice about a Christmas tree, but Trump is pretty messed up. So there you go. PS. Some folks have written to me to…
Sod off, Norm Doyle #nlpoli
Ex-Harper fart catcher Norm DoyleVeteran Connie hack Norm Doyle has finally aged off the public tit, on which he spent too much of his adult life. Attention spans are so…
Sod off, Norm Doyle #nlpoli
Ex-Harper fart catcher Norm DoyleVeteran Connie hack Norm Doyle has finally aged off the public tit, on which he spent too much of his adult life. Attention spans are so…
Sod off, Norm Doyle #nlpoli
Ex-Harper fart catcher Norm Doyle Veteran Connie hack Norm Doyle has finally aged off the public tit, on which he spent too much of his adult life. Attention spans are…
I Ain’t Been Nowhere Man…
? Chuck’s contemporary COVID version of Hank Snow’s I’ve been everywhere. The post I Ain’t Been Nowhere Man… first appeared on richardhughes.ca.
Ignoring worried doctors, Jason Kenney sticks with largely voluntary ‘pause’ to keep lid on COVID-19
The pandemic is bad and quickly getting worse in Alberta with 860 new daily cases reported yesterday, but Premier Jason Kenney remains deeply committed to the please-knock-it-off-guys approach to controlling…
Pandemic??? Really??? All cause mortality in Ontario drops during first 6 months of Covid as per StatsCan –
This mostly benign virus is why people are having their lives destroyed by government overreach, why 10,000 more children are dying every single month due to srarvation according to the…
East trumps West in COVID fight
The biggest problems we face in the modern world, including the biggest one of all, global warming, are human problems, i.e. problems we must face as a species rather than…
The partisan nature of no-position non-partisanship
There’s a new group of non-partisan ideaers ‘TheNext30’ that have published their debut idea: ‘The last thing we need for progress is a polarized Alberta‘. As a follow-up here is…
The terminal politics of ‘more of the same’
Mural depicting Bernie Sanders in Philadelphia. Photo by Tyger Williams/Philadelphia Inquirer. With the American election looming, it appeared that a resounding defeat might be in the works for Trump and…
Sustainable Bioplastics: Are They Really Greener?
Canada announced its commitment to ban a list of non-reusable plastic products by 2022. Restaurants, grocers, and other businesses will need to quickly find a viable solution to replace single-use…
Sustainable Bioplastics: Are They Really Greener?
Canada announced its commitment to ban a list of non-reusable plastic products by 2022. Restaurants, grocers, and other businesses will need to quickly find a viable solution to replace single-use…
Sustainable Bioplastics: Are They Really Greener?
Canada announced its commitment to ban a list of non-reusable plastic products by 2022. Restaurants, grocers, and other businesses will need to quickly find a viable solution to replace single-use…